After childbirth, women may experience a mild depression lasting from one to two days after delivery, which is marked by crying, fitful sleep, tension, anger, and irritability. This mild depression is known as

a. postpartum depression.
b. motherese.
c. maternity blues.
d. childbirth-related dysthymia.


c

Psychology

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Signe got her ears pierced. The earring was placed in her _____.

A. tympanic membrane B. stapes C. pinna D. malleus

Psychology

Attending to many modalities simultaneously is a phenomenon called

A) bottom-up processing. B) top-down processing. C) parallel processing. D) selective attention.

Psychology

The two basic functions of theories are to

a. explain and modify behavior. b. describe and modify behavior. c. describe and explain behavior. d. explain and predict behavior.

Psychology

Milgram surveyed both a panel of Yale undergraduates and a panel of psychology professors before he conducted his original experiment. In these surveys, he found that

a. most people predicted that less than 1 percent of participants would go to 450 volts. b. most people predicted that less than 10 percent of the participants would go to 450 volts. c. most people predicted that a majority of participants would go to 450 volts. d. students underestimated the percentage who would go all the way to 450 volts, while professors' estimates were fairly accurate.

Psychology